Sins of the Father Upon the Son and Generations to Come: Maintaining the Socioeconomic Vestiges of African-American Slavery, Disfranchisement and Deva

ISBN-13: 9781494908652 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 154 str.

Rufus O. Jimerson

Opis

The purpose of this book is to provide a vivid argument and interpretations that indicate that slavery is a crime against humanity which transcended time through Jim Crow laws and defacto discrimination persistent in contemporary America. The racist beliefs and attitudes stemming from the enslavement of Africans have served as the rationale for the accumulating of wealth and privilege among European-Americans off the lowly paid, hard-work of African-Americans. Slavery served as the crucible of intergenerational wealth and socioeconomic status that transformed the USA from subsistent agrarian nation to a modern post-industrial superpower. The collateral damage to Black Americans is disproportionate dehumanization, dependency, inferior complex, alcohol and drug dependency, arrest, incarceration and intergenerational poverty. A nation initially built "on the backs" of the slaves, the South generated the nation's wealth until it was devastated during the Civil War. From its inception to the Lincoln presidency, the national government was controlled by slaveholders and those that benefited by the peculiar institution. The federal government was used to pursue runaway slaves as far as violating the sovereignty of Spanish Florida to retrieve them. The book describes the cruelty and brutality of slavery. How it destroyed the moral compass, humanity, culture and family life of the enslaved. It paints how slave women, men and children were subjected to sexual lust and exploitation form whites. The principal forms of sexual abuse and brutality, "breeding" and "rape," is pointed out as the crucible of dehumanization of the slave and his/her community. The wholesale intentional destruction of the slaves' cultural identity is identified and linked with intergenerational problem that pledged the underdevelopment of African-Americans today. The continuous use of mechanisms of rooted in the Slave Codes is clarified and linked to the "Southern Strategy" followed by Tea Party Republicans and other ultra-conservatives today. The book describes the transformation from dejure to defacto practices that result in racial separation, discrimination, and hegemony that thwarts African-American progress through the early 21st century. Attention is given to the so-called 21st century Post-Racial Society and that thirty year "white backlash" which reached an apex with the creation of The Tea Party determined to thwart the first African-American elected to the presidency, Barrack Obama, and rising minority-majority. After racializing the 2012 national election and failing to steal the presidency, Republicans sought new and more energetic leadership to help them overcome a second term of the first African-American president. In steps the newly-elected, Senator from Texas, Ted Cruz and his obstructionist tactics backed by Heritage Action and other right-wing political action committees. His rise and draconian tactics to shut down the government over the Affordable Care Law is linked to the Southern Strategy and its racial politics rooted in the "peculiar institution." Senators Cruz and Marco Rubio are second generation Cuban-Americans whose politics best reflect the ongoing struggle with Castro's revolutionary government rather than Obama's "Hope and Change" agenda. These Tea Party conservatives are transfixed are transfixed on the island's struggle against totalitarianism as opposed the America' conflict resolution through pragmatic compromises. Underlining the exile story that they are transfixed on is the deep seated racism reflected in the island's history. A deep-seeded racial Apartheid system exists in the Cuban community in the Diaspora and on the island which has not been rectified by so-called communistic revolution supposedly devoted to its extinction.